Does the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) of 1998 expand protection of works on the Internet?
Yes, the DMCA (Pub. L. No. 105-304, 112 Stat. 286046) added Chapter 12 to the U.S. Copyright Law47. The DMCA prohibits any person from circumventing a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under the U.S. Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. 1201(a)(1)48. The Copyright Office will determine whether any classes of works should be subject to exemptions for the prohibitions and will publish lists of such exempt classes. The DMCA also makes it illegal for a person to manufacture, import, offer to the public, provide or otherwise traffic in any technology, product, service, device, component or part thereof which is primarily designed or produced to circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to or unauthorized copying of a work protected by copyright, has only a limited commercially significant purpose or use other than circumvention of such measures, or is marketed for use in circumventing such measures, 17 U.S.C. 1201(a)(2)49. In addition t
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